Dorrel Holmes

390 Ninth Avenue

New York, NY 10001

February 05 2011

His Excellency Timothy M. Dolan

Archbishop of New York
460 Madison Avenue
New York. NY 10022-6863.

Re: Invisible hate crimes.

Dear Archbishop Dolan:

I am writing as a sixty-three year old Black male hate crime victim.

The annexed photographs are my foot. The condition diagnosed as pedal edema is the effect
caused by sleep deprivation, the inability to go to bed, and congestive heart disease, as a result of
living on the street for over four years.

Homelessness is a death sentence, and when someone is deprived of medical treatment, and their
livelihood, it’s tantamount to killing them. I am being murdered, and I am requesting any
assistance you can offer to prevent the slow death.

On the night of March 01, 2006, I was targeted, confronted, threatened, manhandled, terrorized,
and robbed, by a group of White and Asian males while sitting alone in my vehicle.

The perpetrators were Police officers Park (badge number 27463) who is Asian, his White
partner, and another White officer.

They arrested me for driving without a seat belt, and Officer Park was designated as the arresting
officer, (Similar to the arrest of Clarence Jones, the "Harlem Black doll" whistle-blower) in order
to divert attention from the racially motivated attack, and obvious racism.

They prepared and filed Police and Court documents, including the affidavit supporting the
criminal complaint, (Docket # 2006QN011207) containing statements they knew to be false
about the events leading up to the attack, similar to Officer Patrick Pogan.

Specifically that, prior to arresting me, Officer Park personally observed me operating my
vehicle without a seat belt, even though I was sitting in my legally parked vehicle when
confronted. I was parked in the same spot when he and his partner arrived on the scene, several
minutes after the confrontation, and I was still parked in the same spot when his partner

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approached me threatening and shouting, "GET OUT, GET OUT. YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S
ALL ABOUT. IT'S BLACK OR WHITE".

On or around April 9, 2010 four days after 26-year-old Mexican immigrant Rodulfo Olmedo was
attacked, NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force officers who worked around the clock, arrested Tyrone
Goodman, Rolston Hopson, William Marcano, and a 15-year-old who allegedly called Mr.
Olmedo "a (expletive) Mexican" and "a stupid Mexican" before hitting him with planks and
robbing him of his wallet and cell phone.

"We simply won't tolerate them," Commissioner Kelly said of hate crimes. "We devote more
resources to investigating hate crime than any jurisdiction in America, as far as I know, and
probably the world."

"You literally wouldn't rest until the individuals who committed these horrible crimes were
brought to justice," was City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's (D-Manhattan) response in
respect of the arrests.

My experience was brought to the attention of Commissioner Kelly by complaint filed in March
2006, and again in 2007, by Deputy Criminal Justice coordinator, Mr. Scott Sigal. As of the
present, there is no evidence of any investigation.

My experience was also brought to the attention of Speaker Quinn, who has not taken any action.

On the night of March 01 2006, I was gainfully employed, and simply sitting alone in my legally
parked, registered and insured, vehicle. I did not commit, was not committing, or linked to any
crime. I did not have an unpaid parking ticket, and my driving record was spotless.

Today, even though all the charges against me were dismissed in absentia, the Court record have
been sealed, the hate crimes have disappeared, the group of White and Asian perpetrators who
committed essentially the same horrible crimes as Tyrone Goodman, Rolston Hopson, William
Marcano, and the 15-year-old have not been brought to Justice, and I have a history of arrest, and
a criminal record, without committing a single violation of any Law.

Four years a go, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, (2007) while in the company of two Black
uniformed Nassau County Police officers, I was arrested by officer Magnuson a former New
York City Police officer, and my registered and insured vehicle, and medication was confiscated.
I have been unemployed and homeless since then.

Homelessness is a death sentence. When someone is deprived of medical treatment, and their
livelihood, it’s tantamount to killing them.

I am requesting any assistance you can offer, to prevent the slow death, to be treated on an equal
basis as Mr. Olmedo and other victims, in order that I will be able to return to work, and salvage
my life.

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Respectfully yours

..........................
Dorrel Holmes.

Cc: Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie

rector@saintpatrickscathedral.org